Posts from Koester House Museum & Gardens
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If This House Could Talk -- Blog Post #28I am proud that I had electric lights before the White House and that Charles wasn’t afraid to touch the light switches like President B...
If This House Could Talk -- Blog post #27 -- Ever Smalle... By the turn of the 20th century train travel was so much quicker. When Charles took a business trip to Kansas City in 1894, he left Mary...
IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK -- Blog Post # 26 -- Connected ... Trains enabled Charles and the family to travel away from Marysville. Rail travel was a part of milestone events in their lives. Charles...
IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK -- Blog Post #25 -- Trains A Wa... Long before there was Amazon, there was the train from St. Joe. When Charles needed an atomizer to treat his son Charlie’s sore throat f...
If This House Could Talk -- Blog Post #24Charles didn’t miss anniversaries. August 7, 1900, was a meaningful one. It was the 40th anniversary of his arrival in Marysville. He ho...
If This House Could Talk -- Blog #23What a difference 40 years makes. Charles arrived in Marysville on a wagon pulled by oxen the night of August 7, 1860. Almost 42 years l...
If This House Could Talk -- Blog post #22 -- A Fine HousePerhaps it was losing his childhood home in Germany or maybe it was moving from town to town as a recent immigrant in America that cause...
If This House Could Talk -- Blog #21Before me, Charles had an immigrant’s journey. Having lost their home, he and his family left Germany when he was 10 years old and saile...
If This House Could Talk -- Blog post #20Charles Koester who built me emigrated to America in 1852. Like many immigrants, he and his family, having lost their home and livelihoo...
If This House Could Talk - Post #19Every once in a while, someone takes down one of the books from my library’s shelves. Just think what would happen today if a well-meani...
If This House Could Talk - Post #18My summer kitchen was a beehive of activity from May to October each year as the housekeeping chores of cooking, baking, and laundry wer...
If This House Could Talk -- Blog Post #17True to his nature, Charles improved on my summer kitchen in 1887. He had his carpenter, Mr. Grimm, add a courtyard veranda that connect...
Koester House Museum & Gardens
919 Broadway Street
Marysville, KS 66508
785-562-2417
www.koesterhousemuseum.com
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